Jonas Software expands offerings to Club industry with Asigra-based online e-Backup/Recovery services
TORONTO February 1, 2006 – Jonas Softwareâ?¢, the leading software provider to the club industry, today announced its newest offering, e-Backup Services. Utilizing Asigraâ?¢ agentless backup/restore technology, this Jonas Software service enables fast, secure, and cost-effective data backup, recovery, and offsite vaulting for their customers.
"Over the past 18 months many factors including natural disasters and government legislation have increased the importance of data backup and recovery in every industry including the Private Club," said John Billowits, President of Jonas Software. "As a technology partner to over 3400 clients, we felt it necessary to assist them in this process and provide peace of mind that their off-site storage of critical information would be safe, secure, and available should the need arise for restoration."
Currently many clubs utilize manual tape backup systems. These systems often provide less than adequate performance with an average failure rate of nearly 35%. These failures are primarily attributed to two main areas: data write errors and daily process requirements including human intervention for backup and off-site storage. "As we researched this new service offering, we surveyed several clients as to the process and effectiveness of their current backup implementation. The results were eye opening for us and even more so for the clients. Many of the established processes such as tape rotation and off-site storage were not being followed. In several cases, the tapes were left in the machine every day, effectively making them useless." Billowits continued to say, "In steep contrast, a club that implements our solution will experience an online backup process that has both an extremely high success rate and is fully automated. These features include; 256-bit AES "in-flight" and "at-rest" encryption for top level data security, WAN optimization and compression technology for faster transfers and smaller storage, and "hot" backups for automated, hands-off backup processing."
Based on competitive pricing, high ROI, and the ever-growing importance of data security, Jonas Software anticipates adoption rates to soar. Billowits concluded by saying, "In today’s club landscape, General Managers and Controllers are being held accountable for proper daily operations by boards, members and the government. This accountability is making their current and historical data even more critical than ever before. By implementing a Jonas e-Backup Services solution they can feel certain that this information is being securely stored out of harms way and can be recovered with minimal effort should the occasion arise."
This service is now available to all Jonas Software clients including: clubsystems group, Jonas Club Management, and Smyth Systems software users.
About Jonas Software: Jonas Software is the leading technology partner for more than 3400 clubs in over 8 countries. Jonas Software’s fully integrated software solutions enable clubs to leverage their computer and network infrastructure to build and enrich customer relationships, increase revenues, and decrease costs. Jonas Software is an end-to-end solution that automates every aspect of clubhouse operations from accounting and membership to tee times and point of sale. For more information visit: www.jonasclub.com.
About Asigra
Asigra is the award-winning leader in remote office/branch office online backup/recovery with more than three petabytes of data under protection. Since 1986, the company’s agentless Televaulting solution has centralized data management and eliminated agent-based software compliance, pricing and performance issues for multi-site enterprises. Privately held Asigra has partner offices located worldwide. For more information visit www.asigra.com.
Contact:
Matt Otchet
800-356-4242 ext. 185
motchet@jonassoftware.com
